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As the world’s attention has turned to protests and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, some have criticized the use of equipment meant for battlefields by local police. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department is among the local agencies using equipment that once belonged to the U.S. military, and has received at least one mine-resistant vehicle, an armored vehicle,

A former South Lake Tahoe man has been found guilty by a Placerville Jury of a murder that is over 30-years-old. On August 14, 1980, 16-year-old Richard Swanson was three weeks into his very first job. He was working the graveyard shift as an attendant at the South Y Gas Station in South Lake Tahoe,